Painted Button-Quails

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Normali in the animal kingdom you will see a male doing the call for females and protecting a territory, men while the female take care of the offspring. But note this one. They switches places in the chores. I am talking about the Painted Button-Quails (Turnix varius).

The Painted Button-Quails is endemic of Australia.








The female is the one who will keep a territory and have more than one partner. She calls for the males, lay their eggs (between 3-5), and leave the part of caring for the yongs with the male. The female is bigger than the male, and during the courtship she even offer food to the male.



The male will incubate the eggs during 15 day, and will care for them after hatching more 16 days, when they will be group enough to take care from themselves.



It is a bird that aviators created, but is not recommended if you are a total inicant. They can be see like a control pest population of insects.




Kingdom> Animalia
 Phylum> Chordata
  Class> Aves
   Order> Charadriiformes
    Family> Turnicidae
     Genus> Turnix
      Species> T. varius

~Catch you later

References:
http://www.graemechapman.com.au/library/viewphotos.php?c=736
http://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/62288672
http://birdcare.com.au/painted_button_quail.htm
http://www.birdsindanger.net/pdfs/Painted%20Button-quail%20(Houtman%20Abrolhos).pdf
http://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/sprat/public/publicspecies.pl?taxon_id=82451
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Painted_buttonquail
http://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Turnix_varius/

Stonefish (Synanceia)

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I bring a thought fish. He can survive out of the water for 24h, have the most deadly venom and you can esly mistake him with a rock.








The stonefish have spines over they back, it is in thous people steps accidentally. They have a tissue that incover the spine, and when that finc in something and the tissue is pushed down squises the venom aut.




The venom of the stone fish is deadly and each of the 13 spines can delivery it, but luckily if you have a water hoten the 45ºC you can help diminish the venom. The venom of him is destroyed in high temperature, but it can’t be a temperature that hurt the person. But you still needed to go quickly to receive the antivenom.











The ability of stay out of water for 24h is related to the fact this fish just stay put and wait for they victims. Been stil even if the mare start to goin down and they can get stuck in a pond or even stay in a place where the water retreats totally. How normally in less than 24h the mare get bec, the fish can stay in the same place and just wait, food will came together with the water.





Kingdom> Animalia
 Phylum> Chordata
  Order> Scorpaeniformes
   Family> Synanceiidae
    Genus> Synanceia





References:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synanceia_verrucosa
http://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Synanceia/classification/#Synanceia
http://otlibrary.com/stonefish/
https://australianmuseum.net.au/reef-stonefish-synanceia-verrucosa-bloch-schneider-1801


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8yJkIuvPvM

Huntsman spiders

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Hunting dreams, I bring today the Huntsman spider. Her size can scar people, and having that jumping in you is more than terrifying.






Far spread in the world, the family of Sparassidae is well know. And all this family instead of build webs and wait for the food they go after it, hunting. What can make one enter your house just to check if it is not a delicious cocorouth around, or any other insect with the right size to catch.









But even the hunter go attacking their prey, they don’t attack humans for free. This spiders prefer to run instead of confront the atacar. And if the atacant is a hand, they don’t see the human been part of the hand, so it can make them just jump in the direction of the big body training to scape the hand.




It is like another spider misunderstood, the camel spiders (order Solifugae). It was belief they go after humans in the desert. Camel spider, like the huntsman spider, are fast and big what cause the mits about a spider in the desert eating an arm from a person. But all that spider is doing is just get shelter from the sun in the closest shadow, and what is better than a moviment shadow to go after your next meal in the desert?







And both spider don’t have a harmels venom, just a painful bit. The camel spider don’t have venom at all. But the huntsman spider have venom, just is not the type that can do some damage in humans.




Huntsman spider

Kingdom> Animalia
 Phylum> Arthropoda
  Subphylum> Chelicerata
   Order> Araneae
    Infraorder> Araneomorphae
     Family> Sparassidae



Camel spider

Kingdom> Animalia
 Phylum> Arthropoda
  Subphylum> Chelicerata
   Class> Arachnida
    Order> Solifugae



~Catch you later



References:
http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/wildlife/2012/08/australian-spiders-the-10-most-dangerous
http://www.spiders.com.au/huntsman-spider.html
http://www.minibeastwildlife.com.au/resources/huntsman-spiders/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solifugae
http://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Sparassidae/classification/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0I6UEV4MacA

Phocoena dioptrica

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Looking in a list of marine animals from Australia, I found the Spectacled porpoise.









This creature is found in a good part of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current , and there was a register in south Australia of them.

Infortunately, little is know about this specie of Porpoise, because they run from boats. The majority of registers about the species is from cativets ones. In fact the firth report of this species came from a dead body founded in the shore, in 1912.



What can make you wander, how many exist from this creature? No one know. Exist to little data about them to estimate a population.



They have a easy way to distinguish the male from female by the dorsal fin, the male have it in a biggest size. 

Don’t let their faces trick you. They are related with whales and dolphins, but they are porpoises. Even been close related with dolphins and having small size they are described like been little whales with spade-shaped teeth (dolphins have a conical teeth).



Phylum> Chordata
 Class> Mammalia
  Order> Artiodactyla
   Infraorder> Cetacea
    Family> Phocoenidae
     Genus> Phocoena
      Species> P. dioptrica

~Catch you later

References:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780123735539002479
http://porpoise.org/about-porpoises/spectacled-porpoise/ 

https://www.arkive.org/spectacled-porpoise/phocoena-dioptrica/image-G99387.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectacled_porpoise

Mouse Spiders

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Lets talk about the Missulena, is a genus of spider and you will prefer don’t see one of those.


Havin a venom that contain similarities to the venom of the Funnel-web spider you probably will think that this one is equal dangerous, but actually is less. Not that you don’t die because of the bite, you still can die the same way. The point is that this spider is less aggressive and like to keep har venom, so is more easy to receive just a bite without venom.



The female istil more in har burrows and are more common the males ander off looking for the female. This species live principali close to waterways, they like a umid clime to go around, so in the rain they will get off from their burrows and go for a walk looking for a mate and there is when you probably will see one.



They have dimorphism, the female is all black and the male have some variation of colors depending which species they are.

The big amount of them is more black, but have some exceptions like the rare red-coloured mouse spider.

They are well spread in Australia, and since I couldn’t find a good image of they distribution i got from a specific species that gives the idea.

And her borrow locks like this>









Kingdom> Animalia
 Phylum> Arthropoda
  Subphylum> Chelicerata
   Class> Arachnida
    Order> Aranea
      Infraorder> Mygalomorphae (look who is related with the Funnel-web)
       Family> Actinopodidae
        Genus> Missulena

~catch you later

References:
http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/wildlife/2012/08/australian-spiders-the-10-most-dangerous
http://www.spiders.com.au/mouse-spider.html
https://australianmuseum.net.au/red-headed-mouse-spider-missulena-occatoria
http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/wildlife/2015/08/rare-red-coloured-mouse-spider
http://www.discoverlife.org/mp/20q?search=Missulena+occatoria

Possum

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Today will see a common animal from Australia, the Possum.

This marsupial is easy to see and harmless… wel, almost harmless. I heard the relate of these two people who was walking at night and from no wer end no reason a possum just jump and grab the lag of one, who of course scream and shook until the animal run away. But normally they have a calm nature and probably only will attack you if they fell cornered.





Possum are cute animals, don’t mistake them whit opossum, even thow both play death the opossum live in the americas and have a hairless tail, while the possum live in Australia and have a furry tail. The offspring from the opossum is many, when the offspring os the possum is just one. Both have a nocturnal life.









This is an animal that you definitely will see in Australia, because the common brushtail possum live quite well in the city and far spread in Australia, but have a control population duet the vast list of predators. In New Zealand, where they are an introduction species and don’t have natural predators, they become a plague.







Even they diet is based in leafs and fruits, they tried to eat practically a little of everything, but the principal dish is leafs. Of course they don’t refuse a free meal.

Kingdom> Animalia
 Phylum> Chordata
  Class> Mammalia
   Infraclass> Marsupialia
    Order> Diprotodontia
      Family> Phalangeridae
       Genus> Trichosurus 
         Species> T. vulpecula

~Catch you later

References:
http://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Phalangeridae/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phalangeriformes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuscus
http://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Phalangeriformes/specimens/collections/contributors/anatomical_images/metatherian_traits/syndactyly/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opossum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_brushtail_possum

Funnel-Web Spider

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Today we will seeing (or not) one of the most dangerous spider from Australia. The Funnel-Web.

I believe that everyone in Australia who lives there know about this spider venom and probabli how to distinguish her. Then, this is a animal that you NOT wanna see, because it can kill you, and it can happen in 15 min if you got a good amount of venom. With luck, if you are unluckly for bin bite, the spider in question can have not inject such a month of venom and you have a good time to go call an ambulance or go on hospital. But please, go. That is not the kind of venom your body can handle by himself.

This spider is the worl’s deadliest of all, so keep your distance for safety.

Don’t do what this fellow is doing, he work with spider and have the antivenom aside him for the worst. Besides, he know what he is doing.

Look how cool is this, what gives har name Funnel-web.

Distribution: Sydney, Central Coast and Illawarra regions and west to the Blue Mountains

The kind of spiders who receives the name Funnel-Web are tree.

• The Sydney Funnel-Web Spider (Atrax robustus) is a ground dweller in moist soil areas along much of the eastern coastal area of New South Wales and Victoria.
• The Blue Mountains Funnel-Web Spider (Hadronyche versuta) is found mainly in the Blue Mountains area, as far west as the Bathurst - Orange region and occasionally in the Sydney basin.
• The Northern Tree Funnel-Web Spider (Hadronyche formidabili) is found in south-eastern Queensland and northern New South Wales as far south as the Hunter Valley region.

And this treplet need to be feard. All them have that chance of killing you in 15 minutes. But don’t worry so much if you see one, they want to eat their prey (such as beetles, cockroaches, small lizards or snails,) and probably will ignore you. Unless you make them feel treathen, then they start to consider about biting you. So, keep your distance.


Anothar interisting fact is that they have rearward-facing fangs capable of piercing through fingernails.

Kingdom> Animalia
Phylum> Arthropoda
Subphylom> Chelicerata
Class> Arachnida
Order> Aranea
Infraorder> Mygalomorphae
Family> Hexathelidae
Subfamily> Atracinae
Genus> Atrax

~Catch you later!

References:
https://australianmuseum.net.au/sydney-funnel-web-spider
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_funnel-web_spider
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_funnel-web_spider
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrax
http://www.spiders.com.au/funnel-web-spider.html
http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/wildlife/2017/02/worlds-deadliest-spider-the-sydney-funnel-web
https://australianmuseum.net.au/uploads/journals/19162/1556_complete.pdf

R. Gray, Michael. (2010). A Revision of the Australian Funnel-web Spiders (Hexathelidae: Atracinae). Records of the Australian Museum. 62. 285-392. 10.3853/j.0067-1975.62.2010.1556.